I don't sweat unless I do cardio

LolaKarwowski

Hello! I have recently started weight lifting and have realized that no matter how hard I push myself in my workouts I do not sweat.. at all. I'm confused, seeing as how all the other muscular people around me are drenched in sweat. The only times I ever really sweat is when I do my cardio (2-3x a week for 15-20min).

Is there a reason for this?
I want to ask if I should push myself harder..but I honestly feel like I have done this to the max.
Is this a dumb thing to worry about?

FitForL1fe

I'm sure it's different for everyone but I wouldn't worry about it. just keep moving the weights and get those gainz

galgenstrick

don't sweat it...

Sweating has nothing to do with how hard you're working or with any type of progress you're making. If it did, I would be sitting in the sauna all day. Sweating is your body's way of cooling itself, and depends on a lot of factors. I was sweating hard yesterday during my cardio, and didn't sweat at all today during my cardio -- same activity and same intensity.

annette_15

Yea I'm the same... I wouldnt worry about it

jennifer_417

Sweat isn't an indication of anything except losing water. Unless you're chronically dehydrated, I wouldn't worry about it. Sweat isn't necessarily an indication of how hard you're working.

Cherimoose

If you sweat during cardio but not during weights, it's possible that you're not using enough weight, or that the exercises you're doing are isolation exercises and not compound movements (google those terms if they're new to you). Which strength program are you following?

Sweet_Heresy

Yeah, I didn't start sweating til my (compound) lifts got heavier. I sweat like a pig doing deadlifts lol.

louubelle16

I wouldn't complain if I were you, I'm one of those people who sweats just walking across the car park to the gym, I end up drenched at even the shortest period of light cardio! Be grateful

DawnieB1977

I don't sweat that much, even when I'm working really hard. My personal trainer always used to be amazed that I'd look so calm when he was really pushing me, and said he'd be bright red and dripping with sweat lol. Maybe I just have high tolerance lol. My mum is always saying how amazing it was that an hour after giving birth to my first child I was sitting cross legged on the bed and chatting on the phone to my sister. I have photos just after having my 3 kids, within half hour of them being born, and I look totally normal.

professionalHobbyist

Heart rate is what makes me sweat.

If you get a heart rate monitor and do your lifting sets in rapid succession, and get your heart rate up.... You will sweat and it will also be a cardio type workout

If you care for more info on that concept, check out interval training with weights.

It is a fat blaster with a little muscle building.

Some just lift in rapid sets and call it circuit training

You know how workout people like cool new names for old tricks in new clothes

rdkstar

I'm not much of a sweat person either. It is normal. Don't worry - just keep moving forward.

amusedmonkey

Sweating is just a cooling mechanism that is pretty much tied to your genetics and persona physiology. I sweat if I walk slightly faster than usual or after light cleaning even though the amount of effort is low. I even need a good absorbent towel for yoga. It's just how my body does it. Your body does it differently.

The goal of weight lifting is to condition your muscles, it has nothing to do with sweating. For some people sweating tends to be an after-effect. If it's not for you, that shouldn't bother you since you're working your muscles - which is the whole point.

lisalsd1

I sweat like a grown man when I run...it is slightly embarrassing. I don't sweat at all when I lift...I did pee my pants a little when I deadlifted 220 the other day though. Surprisingly, I was less embarrassed of the pee.

jimmmer

Sweating is not an indicator of strength increases.

Being able to lift more as time goes by is the indicator that you're after. Everything else is noise.

LolaKarwowski

lisalsd1 wrote: »

I sweat like a grown man when I run...it is slightly embarrassing. I don't sweat at all when I lift...I did pee my pants a little when I deadlifted 220 the other day though. Surprisingly, I was less embarrassed of the pee.

This made me chuckle. Thank you everyone! I feel a lot better about the whole thing. Very new to the whole weightlifting thing so I am always coming up with questions and since it's so new I can't tell if it is something to even worry about or not. This definitely helps.

rileyes

The more challenging the more I sweat.